The Journal of The Scots Heritage Society 

Published May 2004.

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REGULARS

4     Editorial

6     Letters

8     Letter from Scotland - Robin Pellew, Chief Executive of The National Trust for Scotland

16   Focus on Scotland – Dumfries and Galloway

92   SCOTS Gaelic - Ruairidh MacIlleathain

94   SCOTS Fare – Jamie Thewes

100 SCOTS Gardens – George Forrest

106 SCOTS Music – Robin Laing

107 SCOTS Crafts - Black Isle Bronze

108 SCOTS Music Reviews -Pete Clark

110 SCOTS Book Reviews - Seumas MacLeod

DIRECTORY

114 Caledonian Calendar

115 Clans and Societies

120 SCOTS Business Directory

FEATURES

10  ARRAN

Celtic legends speak of a land away to the west known as the Isles of the Blessed.  It takes little imagination to see Arran as such a place.  Photographer Tony Wright and writer Tony Bonning capture the essence of what many believe to be Scotland's most beautiful island. 

18  THE SCOTS IN CANADA

Jenni Calder examines the events that propelled hundreds of thousands of Scottish emigrants towards their new homes in Canada.

24  ADAM DUNCAN

In October 1797 Scotland's most celebrated sailor, Admiral Adam Duncan, commanded the victorious British fleet at the Battle of Camperdown, one of the most decisive naval actions of the French Revolutionary Wars.  Brian Lavery paints a vivid portrait of Duncan and the battle which almost certainly saved Britain from French invasion.  

34  FIRTH OF CLYDE

The mighty Firth of Clyde extends from the City of Glasgow in the east to the remote and beautiful Mull of Kintyre in the west, and south to the gentle rural landscape of Aryshire.  In the second of our features on Scotland's firths, Fiona MacGillivray reports from Glasgow.

40  PRECIOUS METAL

Virginia Glenn examines the remnants of the magnificent Romanesque and Gothic metalwork and ivory carvings that survived the ravages of the Reformation in Scotland.

46  TOMB OF THE EAGLES 

Susan Cromarty explores the Tomb of the Eagles, a Neolithic burial mound on Orkney where ancestral remains were interred with the talons of the noble White Tailed Sea Eagle, the winged totem which may have been a symbolic link with the afterlife. 

54  HIGHLAND PONY

Writer Polly Pullar and artist Keith Brockie continue their series of Rural Portraits with a tribute to the indefatigable Highland pony.

60  KILMARTIN VALLEY

A treasure-house of Scottish antiquity, the Kilmartin Valley in mid-Argyll is rich in the relics of 10,000 years of human habitation.  SCOTS Archaeology Correspondent, Georgia Stannard, explores the relationship between the land and its people.

64  THE ROARIN' GAME

When Scotland won the Curling gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in 202 almost six million people in the UK stayed awake into the we small hours to watch in fascination as a rare global title returned to Scotland, the spiritual home of the game.  Nick Oswald reports from Perthshire.

70  DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY

Fiona Armstrong and landscape photographer Sir Malcolm MacGregor move to the west as they continue their journey through Dumfries and Galloway.

84  WILDCATS

Scotland is home to the Wildcat, one of the world's most endangered felines.  Angus Urquhart reports on the Wildcat's survival in Scotland's remote and largely uninhabited forests.